JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Detailed explanation-1: -The party that Andrew Jackson founded during his presidency called itself the American Democracy. In those same years, changes in electoral rules and campaign styles were making the country’s political ethos more democratic than it previously had been.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson laid the framework for democracy, paid off the national debt, gained new lands for America, strengthened relationships with foreign nations globally and issued a new currency.
Detailed explanation-3: -Van Buren served as Jackson’s secretary of state for two years. By this time, Jackson had decided that Van Buren would be the best man to follow him as president. Jackson offered to resign after the 1832 elections and give Van Buren the job of president.
Detailed explanation-4: -He served two terms in office from 1829 to 1837. During Jackson’s presidency, the United States evolved from a republic-in which only landowners could vote-to a mass democracy, in which white men of all socioeconomic classes were enfranchised.